The House of Representatives has summoned Foreign Affairs Minister Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu and National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu to testify over the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, after the ministry revealed it repeatedly rejected the council’s advances.
Permanent Secretary Dunoma Umar Ahmed told the ad-hoc committee, chaired by Yusuf Gagdi, that self-styled PFIPC head Adeniyi Adeyemi approached the ministry three times — in June 2025, August 2025, and June 2026 — seeking endorsement to host a World Investment Summit, but each request was rejected after officials discovered discrepancies in his documentation. The ministry said it wrote the NSA’s office in October 2025 seeking clarification, receiving confirmation a month later that Adeyemi was “unknown to any office of the Federal Government.”
Lawmakers pressed the ministry on why it took no further action after that confirmation, and questioned how Adeyemi’s council still managed to engage over 30 foreign embassies at a summit despite the ministry’s insistence it had no official dealings with the group.
The investigating committee says the National Security Adviser must now explain what action, if any, followed the confirmation.
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